Awhile back I posted about DanB‘s Basesteading proposal and my related ideas on Seasteading Outposts. Pastor_Jason and others have taken the idea and run with it, and are seriously considering putting a group together to form an outpost, most likely in Belize.
We are not the only ones to recognize the opportunities offered by the ocean’s dynamic geography. From The Economist:
Foreign military bases have both political and practical difficulties. “Seabasing” may offer a solution
BASING troops and equipment on foreign soil is fraught with difficulty. Even friendly countries can cut up rough at crucial moments, as America found when Turkey restricted the use of its territory and airspace during the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
The 2009 Itinerary for ResidenSea (the first and only condominium cruise ship in the world) includes a number of California stops:
I don’t know if it’s possible to arrange a tour while the ship is in San Francisco, but we will certainly try!
We’re excited to announce that we’re hiring for two key positions:
Director of Engineering – Unfortunately, Wayne Gramlich, our co-founder and original Director of Engineering, has been unable to devote the time to TSI to continue in this role, so we’re looking elsewhere to fill his shoes. This person will provide vision and management for all of TSI’s technology initiatives, such as seastead designs and prototypes, and have some involvement with hands-on execution.
Here’s an update from the design contest. We have less than two weeks left before the deadline May 1st, so keep those entries coming!
We have been contacted by Will Pierce who would like to design a seastead with an architectural drawing. However, as he doesn’t have a computer he cannot digitize the design to 3-D and thus cannot compete in the contest.
I have a follow-up essay at Cato Unbound, THE IMPORTANCE AND LIMITATIONS OF GROUNDWORK.
The implication of a “long, slow…slog” are a line that is slowly and steadily trending upwards. If someone has such a line for the libertarian movement, I would love to see it, but I do not believe it is an accurate assessment of our history.
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With that said, here is a critical difference between an inchoate individualist mass and an organized, self-identified group.
April 15th, 2009 – Palo Alto, CA — The Seasteading Institute Announces Membership Program; Annual Report
We have a higher-resolution version of the flyby video posted awhile back. You can download it or watch it on YouTube below.
I’m reading Atlas Shrugged for the first time, and I’ve been thinking about the economic tradeoffs involved in a movement like Galt’s Gulch or seasteading, where you take an initial charge in order to achieve higher long-term growth rates due to more efficient government.
I decided to model the costs of Gulching as an initial cost to wealth, and the gains as a higher exponential growth rate. To make the graphs easier (by making it wealth-invariant, and thus not having that extra variable), I modeled the initial cost as simply being a fraction of wealth.
On Tuesday, April 7, I gave a talk on seasteading at the Cato Institute’s Policy Forum, followed by comments by Doug Bandow and Arnold Kling. The presentation was recorded and is available for viewing at the Cato Institute’s website. We also recorded a short podcast afterwards.
As always, you can find recordings and material about talks on the Past Talks page.
